SIGNED...APPLE, GLASS PAPERWEIGHT...ART GLASS, VINTAGE

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Carl Kraft Paperweights BIOGRAPHY OF CARL KRAFT: Carl Kraft is a little known glass artist, whose paperweights are rather limited, of high quality, and a real find for collectors! He was a third generation glassblower; both his grandfather (in Sweden) and his father (in California) worked with glass their entire lives. At the age of five, Carl began to learn about glass from his father at his studio (the Kraft Glass Studio) in Bell Gardens, CA and eventually took over the studio from his father. In California, Carl primarily made high quality stemware that was sold throughout the country. In the late 1950s, the studio closed and he moved east and eventually settled in the Toledo, OH area w he was employed at the Owens-Illinois Technical Center of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. T he worked essentially as an experienced glass technician, developing glass formulas for different uses. At that time, he became friends with other glassblowers in the area, including Joe St.Clair and Dominik Labino among others, and he began to do more creative glasswork at his small home studio. In the mid-1970s he suffered a heart attack and had to retire from Owens-Illinois Glass, but a few years later he opened a small shop in Toledo, called the "Glass Apple", w he sold mainly his own handblown glass paperweights, vases, and some decorative stemware read more

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